Improvement in pockets



Y. CHOW. Pocket.

No. '201,595. Patemed Marchfze, 1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

YUNG CHOW, 0F SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN POCKETS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 201,595, dated March 26, 1878; application filed January 14, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, YUNG CHOW, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improved Pocket for Clothing; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to Which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention without further invention or experiment.

My invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of clothing; and it consists in a novel method of constructing the pockets so that the pocket itself forms a reenforce to prevent the breaking or tearing out of the corners of the pocket-opening, which is made in the material to receive the pocket.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are views of my invention. Fig. 3 is a section of the s ane.

A is a portion of a pair of overalls, pants, or other article of clothing, and B shows a pocket-opening formed in the' usual manner.

As these pocket-openings are subjected to severe strains at the corners, various methods for re-enforcing or strengthening them have been resorted to, such as rivets, strips of material, either formed in cutting out the goods or independently, and sewed across the corner scams of the pocket, and also by making the opening itself with rounded corners.

In my invention I do away with the necessity of these devices, by so constructing the pocket C that there are no corner-scams, and

' the cloth is continuous at the point where the corners of the pocket-opening are formed, so as to reenforce these points without the necessity of extra pieces of any sort.

The pocket C has its front edge stitched to the edge of the pocket-opening B, as shown, and it continues in a curve, d, extending up- -ward across and past the corners of the opening.

The pocket itself is made of one piece of material, and so folded that thelsean falls in the middle of one side, thus avoiding all scams at .the corners and sides.

Having thus described my invention7 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- V ters Patent, is-

The pocket C, stitched to the edges of the pocket-opening B, and arranged to have its seam intermediate of the sides, leaving the fabric of the pocket continuous and without seam at the sides and corners, and extending up over the corners, so as to form a re-enforce, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

YUNG CHOW.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. STRONG,v FRANK A. BRooKs. 

